Wednesday February 8, 2012 Blog Post
The kindergarten class that came in today is one of the kindergarten classes I'll be working with next week. I want to do a lesson with them about rhyming and illustrating and writing their own poem. I wasn't sure what they knew so Mary Lynn asked them if they knew how to rhyme at the end of class, and they did. They answered questions like what rhymes with cat? Dog? After class I talked to their teacher and she told me they knew a dance that goes along with a song about rhyming. She told me to stop down to her room and that she could give it to me. Mary Lynn told me I could go down with her so I went and the teacher asked the kids to show me their dance to the song. She played it and they did the rhyming dance. The song has a gesture of what to do when two words rhyme and what to do when two words don't rhyme. I thought it was really cute. The kindergarten teacher gave me a copy of her CD and asked me to make a copy of it. I told her I had extra blank CDs at home and said it would be no problem to make her two copies. She told me she was going to give me $5 if I did it. I told her it wasn't necessary to pay me to do it. The song she introduced me to is called, "Make A Rhyme, Make A Move" by Jack Hartman.
I bought two packs of scratchboard for my Keith Haring lesson. I'm excited and feel confident about that lesson but feel I have some kinks to work out for the kindergarten lesson. I enjoyed seeing Mary Lynn's style of teaching today. She says things like, "Are you ready to see the magic happen" when dipping heart shaped paper into water with starch and food coloring. I like how she calls the tables by the color of the paper lantern cover above them, flower table, peace sign table, pok-a-dotted table, striped table, blue table.
Mary Lynn is working on her national certification and was doing a submission on a Shepard Fairey lesson and asked my advise on how she could grade the discussion and I took some notes and gave her my feedback on it. I like that she asks my opinion on things.
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